Nano and Microsensors for Chemical and Biological Terrorism Surveillance provides readers with a brief, yet concise, collection of the latest advances in chemical and biological agent detection and/or their surveillance.
It compiles and gives in-depth detail on several detection schemes so that the reader can be provided with a general sense of these micro and nanoscale sensing systems and platforms.
Nano and Microsensors for Chemical and Biological Terrorism Surveillance covers both well established and "next-generation" micro- and nano-scale sensors and/or sensing platforms.
Sensors or sensing platforms covered range from the novel utilization of nanotubes, cantilevers, nano and/or microsized pores, engineered whole cell, to polymeric transistors for sensing purposes. The enabling of these new technologies will result in a much improved sensing network for the detection and surveillance of both chemical and biological warfare agents.
Contents
1. Carbon-Nanotube-Network Sensors
- Sensor Design and Fabrication
- Electronic Transduction and Noise
- Gas/Vapor Detection
- Detection of Biological Agents Using Immunoassays and DNA Hybridization
2. Chemical and Biological Sensing Using Gold Nanoparticles
- Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles
- Physical Properties of Gold Nanoparticles
- Colorimetric Sensing
- Fluorescence Sensing
- Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering-based Sensing
- Electrical and Electrochemical Sensing
- Gold Nanoparticle Amplified SPR Sensing
- Quartz Crystal Microbalance-based Sensing
- Gold Nanoparticle-based Bio-barcode Assay
3. Resistive-pulse Sensing and On-chip Artificial Pores for Biological Sensing
- Device Fabrication
- Quantitative Measurement of Polydisperse
- Immunological Sensing
- Single-molecule Detection
4. Micro- and Nanocantilever Systems for Molecular Analysis
- Dynamic Cantilever Measurements
- Static Cantilever Measurements
- Detection Methods
- Applications of Microcantilever Sensors
- Nanocantilevers
5. Fiber-optic Sensors for Biological and Chemical Agent Detection
- Fiber-optic Basics
- Optical Fibers as Sensors
- Biological Agent Detection
- Chemical Agent Detection
6. Application of DNA Microarray Technologies for Microbial Analysis
- DNA Microarray Technology
- Microarray Design
- Major Elements of a DNA-Microarray Production
- Major Elements of a DNA-Microarray Experiment
- Applications of Microarray Technologies for Microbial Analysis
- Examples of Applications of Microarrays for Microbial Analysis
7. Whole-cell Sensing Systems in Chemical and Biological Surveillance
- Cell- and Tissue-based Detection Systems
- Genetically Engineered Whole-cell Sensing Systems
- Phage Display Technology
- New Perspectives in Whole-cell Biosensors for Detecting Threat Agents
8. Conducting Polymer Transistors for Sensor Applications
- The Organic Electrochemical Transistor (or Conducting Polymer Transistor)
- Operation as Ion-to-Electron Converter
- Operation as Remote Voltage Sensor
Index
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